My 40th birthday comes in less than a month and, right on schedule, my ob.gyn handed me the paperwork last week to get my first screening mammogram. Yesterday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued new recommendations that will now have women younger than 50 years skipping screening mammograms completely. Will I still be getting [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘breast cancer’
December 14, 2008
SABC: Choose Your Words Carefully
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Here’s a little lesson in semantics for physicians, courtesy of a breast cancer patient advocate. During the Q and A session following one of the presentations in the main hall, a patient advocate went up to the mike and pointed out to the speaker and all of her colleagues in the [...]
December 12, 2008
How EGMN Rises Above the Rest
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
If you want the full picture of trial results presented at medical meetings, you need to get your coverage from Elsevier Global Medical News. Here’s a good example of just one reason why.
This morning, I finished up a story about the first planned results from the TEAM trial, which showed a survival benefit [...]
December 12, 2008
SABC: How to Pack a Room
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, TX
I’ve never attended a meeting in a room that could seat thousands that actually was seating thousands. I fought to find a seat at this morning’s session at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. By my back-of-an-envelope calculations, there were easily 5,000 people seated in the [...]
